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GAS HEATING ATTACHMENT FOR REVERSIBLE SAD IRONS.

No. 350,239. I Patented Oct. 5, 1886. F .'i v

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

HENRY FOX, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOX SAD- IRON 00., OF NEV YOR-K, N. Y.

GAS-HEATING ATTACHMENT FOR REVERSIBLE SAD-IRONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,239, dated October 5, 1886.

Applit'uiion filed November 10, 1885. Serial No. 182,341. (No model.)

1'0 CLZZ whom it may concern:

Beit k nown that I, HENRY G. FOX, of Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas -Heating Attachments for Reversible Sad-Irons and other Hollow Articles or Bodies, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is mainly designed to be applied to heating reversible sad-irons in which the iron or its body is made hollow, and is heated from its interior by a gas flame or flames, and has several faces, either one of which may be brought into use by shifting the position of the handle relatively to said faces or body of the iron 011 the handle, preferably made adjnstableiu relation to the iron by means of a I spring-catch.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Fignrel represents a horizontal section upon the line m a; in Fig. 2 of amany-faced reversible sad-iron with my improved gas-burner attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section upon the line y y in Fig. 1 of the same, and Fig. 3 a transverse section through the burner upon the line ea in Fig. 2.

A indicates the hollow body of a reversible sad-iron, having four different faces a a" a a*, and B BB its handle,with which orlower ends of its arms B B the body is made adj ustable or capable of being turned, subject to the control of a spring-catch, G, for the purpose of changing its working-face asrequired. The one or rear arm, 13 of the handle is constructed at its lower end with a ring or sleeve, I), upon the inner end of which the adjustable or turning body A of the iron has its one end hearing. This ring or sleeve 1) serves to carry and receive through it the gas-burner.

The gas-burner consists in part of a gas pipe, D, which may be connected at its inlet end by a flexible tube with any suitable gas pipe or device provided with a cock for opening, shutting off, or regulating the supply of gas, and which pipe D is closed atits opposite endas, forinstance, by a screw plug or cap, d-and is provided at different points in its length and on different sides with a series of lateral gasoutlets or burner-orifices, e, in rear of its closed end. Combined with this laterally-perforated and end-closed gas-pipe D is an air-su ppl y tube, E, of greater area than the gaspipe D, which is arranged longitudinally within the tube E, so as to provide for a free passage of air around the perforated portion of the gas-pipe within the tube to mix with the gas as it issues from the orifices c in the gaspipe, and the air-tube E is constructed with a series of longitudinally arranged openings, f, corresponding to the rows of perforations in the gas-pipe for the flame of the ignited gas to pass through. The gas-pipe D is supported in its proper relation within the air-tube E by means of internally-bent prongs or portions 9 at the ends of the tube, within which the cap (Z and a collar, h, on the gas pipe are free to fit, and the gas-pipe when in place is or may be secured against longitudinal movement by a set-screw, 8, arranged to pass through the sleeve 1) and tube E. I

In the application of the burner to the hollow body A of the iron,within which the perforated portion of the gaspipe D and longitudinally-slotted portion of the air-tube E are arranged, the tube E is held in position by its fit through the ring or sleeve 6 of the handle, and engagement of a lip, i, 011 it, with anotch in the outer end of the sleeve.

A burner constructed and applied as described to the sad-iron provides for securing a flame of great intensity without any increased consumption of gas, and for a more perfect and general distribution of the flame over the interior surface of the several sides to be heated. By turning the key or cock which lets on the gas the amount of flame may be regulated as required. The same burner may be applied to cylinders or other hollow bodies requiring to be heated on their interior.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The co1nbination,with the handles 13 B 13 the lower end of the arm B having a sleeve, b,and the hollow body A, journaled on the inner end of the sleeve 1) and to the lower end of the arm B, of the airsupply tube E, projecting into the hollow body through'the sleeve Z), and provided with longitudinallyarranged apertures, and with inward-extending projections 9 at its ends, and the perforated gas-pipe D, closed at its inner end and centered within the tube E by the projections g g, substantially as set forth.

2. A reversible sad-iron consisting of the handle B B B the arm 13 having the sleeve b,

notched on its outer end, the hollow body A, journaled on the inner end of the sleeve band to the lower end of the arm 13, the tube E, extending into the hollow body through the sleeve Z), and provided with the longitudinally-arranged apertures, the inward-extending pro- 20 serew s, passing through the sleeve 2) and the 25 tube E, to prevent longitudinal movement of the gas-pipe, substantially as set forth.

HENRY 0. FOX.

Vitnesses:

A. GREGORY, C. Snnowron. 

